Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and Blake Lively will not be in attendance at the 2025 Golden Globes.
Lively, 37, will sit out the annual awards ceremony on Sunday, January 5, amid her ongoing legal battle with her It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni. But it’s not just Lively missing the event — her husband Reynolds, 48, and his Deadpool & Wolverine costar Jackman won’t be attending the Golden Globes this year either.
“Ryan and Hugh were not confirmed to attend and the decision has nothing to do with [sic] legal battle,” a source confirmed to Us Weekly.
According to Deadline, Lively, Reynolds and Jackman made their decisions not to attend the awards ceremony on Sunday well before the It Ends With Us legal battle, and their respective absences from the ceremony are not related to the ongoing scandal.
It’s likely there won’t be any mention of It Ends With Us at the awards show this weekend, either. Comedian Nikki Glaser, who has been tapped to host this year’s Golden Globes, has already made it clear that she won’t be making any jokes about the “hot-button” Lively-Baldoni issue on Sunday.
“I think the Blake Lively–Justin Baldoni thing is such a hot-button thing right now that even a mere mention of it will seem like I could be on the wrong side of things, even though I would never be,” Glaser, 40, told Yahoo! Entertainment on Thursday, January 2. “I also don’t want to give his name any [weight].”
She added, “I’m mad I even know his name, to be honest with you, so I don’t need to say it anymore.”
Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, 40, in December 2024, accusing him of sexual harassment and fostering a “hostile work environment” on the set of It Ends With Us, a film adaptation of author Colleen Hoover’s novel about domestic violence. (In addition to Baldoni, Lively is also suing publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel, as well as Wayfarer Studios.)
The actress’s complaint claimed Baldoni had caused her “severe emotional distress” and had orchestrated an alleged “social manipulation” campaign to damage her reputation.
“I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted,” Lively told Us Weekly in a December 21 statement.
Baldoni has denied Lively’s accusations and filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times for libel and false light invasion of privacy, and is reportedly planning a separate lawsuit against Lively as well.
“We plan to release every single text message between the two of them. We want the truth to be out there,” Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman told NBC News on Thursday. “We want the documents to be out there. We want people to make their determination based on receipts.”
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